Household-calendar.



W. HAWK.

HOUSEHOLD CALENDAR.

APPLICATION FILED APR-'21, I915.

Patented Oct. 3,1916.

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WALTER HAWK, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOUSEHOLD-CALENDAR.

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Application filed April 21, 1915. Serial-No. 22,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER HAWK, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHousehold-Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

The present inventionrelates to household calendars designedparticularly for use as a household ledger or expense account.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of acalendar deviceby means of which the daily and monthly expenses of a household, orother organization, may be preserved with facility, reliability andaccuracy in connection with the calendar, as will hereinafter plained.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements ofparts of a calendar apparatus or cabinet by means of which the date orday tags of the calendar may be attached thereto and other desirablefunctions performed as will be described.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example ofthe physical embodiment of my invention, and a modification thereof,showing the best modes I have so far devised for the practicalapplication of the principles of my invention.

Figure l is a front elevation of the cabinet of the calendar showingseveral date tags attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of thecabinet of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear view of one of the date tags. Fig. 4is a front elevation of a cabinet with a modified form of calendar. Fig.5 is a sectional view of Fig. 1.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention I employ a cabinet 1 ofsuitable size and shape, and made up of proper material, and divide thecabinet into a number of compartments as 2, 2. In the drawings I haveillustrated forty nine of these compartments or pigeon holes, formed bytwo series of partitions as 3 and 41, the former extending from top tobottom of the cabinet and the latter extending horizontally from side toside of the cabinet.

The front wall of the cabinet, as 5, is divided by a series of parallelhorizontal slots be pointed out and ex-' ii which extend across thefront of the cablnet ust below the horizontal partitions so that theslots open into the top of each of the compartments as shown in thedrawings.

In some instances the front wall is omitted at the lower end of thecabinet thus providing open front compartments 2 in which may be storedor stacked blanks or blank cards as 7 having printed thereon propermatter for the entry of daily expense accounts. These daily expensecards are of suitable size to be passed through the slots 6 so that theywill fall into one of the compartments 2, and thus be preserved forfuture use at the proper time.

Each cabinet is equipped with a series of date tags, thirty one innumber, as indicated by the numeral 8, and the tags are of coursenumbered from 1 to 81 to designate the days of the month. These tags arepreferably of metal, such as tin, and the number may be printed orotherwise affixed thereon. Each tag is provided with a bent hook portion9, projecting at its rear as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and this hook isadapted to be suspended over the edge of the wall of the slots in thefront plate of the cabinet. Thus the date tags designated 1, 6, 7, 8,etc., have been suspended by their hooks over the edges of the walls ofthe slots, and it will be understood of course, that at the end of themonth the cabinet will be equipped with all of the tags indicating thesuccessive days of the month.

Tn Figs. 4 and 5 which show the modified form of the invention, the tagshave been dispensed with and a date sheet 10 is employed which issupported on two rollers as 11 and 12. The sheet is slotted at 11 andthese slots alined with the slots in the front wall of the cabinet sothat the daily expense cards may be passed through the alined slots andbe slipped into their proper compartments.

At the top of the front wall of the cabinet of Figs. 1 and 2 a monthplate as 13 is supported between two retaining loops l5 and 16, and inFigs. 2 and 5 a monthly form card 17 is clearly illustrated in a pocketformed by the flanges 18 at the rear of the cabinet, a tab 19 beingprovided on the top of the card by means of which the form card may bewithdrawn from'its pocket when desired.

For convenience in identifying the tags each tag has its date of themonth printed on the hook at its rear as shown in Fig. 3 where the tagindicating the first day of the month is illustrated.

In use the cabinet is located in a convenient and desirable place,either hung up on a support, or supported upon a proper base, but in anyevent the cabinet is displayed in a convenient and accessible position.

The date tags may be attached to the cabinet, each successive day, orthey may be attached to the cabinet the first day of the month ifdesired. The tags are suspended by their hooks from the slots in thefront wall of the cabinet as before described.

In use the expenses of the day are entered upon one of the cards 7 andthe card is passed through one of the slots 6 to its proper compartmentas shown in Figs. 2 and 5, the card of course being placed in thecompartment indicated by the date tag hung over the compartment. Onecard may suffice for all the expenses of the day, or in some cases acard may be used for each separate expense of the day and thus an itembe placed upon each card 7. But it will be understood of course that theexpense of Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the each separate day will be preserved in its separatedcompartment. At the end of the month the daily expense cards may begathered from the open rear ends of the numerous compartments and thenthe account on the monthly card may be set down from the daily cards,after which the cabinet may be prepared and arranged for the succeedingmonth, and the proceeding repeated.

What I claim is In a household calendar the combination with a cabinetof a series of horizontal partitions extending from side to side and aseries of intersecting vertical partitions extending from top to bottomand forming separated compartments open at the rear, a front wall commonto all the compartments and formed with a series of longitudinal slotscommunicating with the upper portions of said compartments, a removablemember closing the open rear ends of the compartments, and date tags,each having a hook and separately attachable to said slotted front Wallin front of a compartment.

In testimony whereof I my signature.

WALTER HAWK.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

